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Welcome to /r/ElizabethWarren, a community for supporters of US Senator Elizabeth Warren, a candidate for President of the United States of America. For more information about Sen. Warren, be sure to visit her campaign website!

If we organize together, if we fight together, if we persist together, we can win!

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Elizabeth Warren is a planner and fighter with a track record of success.

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Elizabeth Warren helped conduct the single largest study ever done on why American families go broke. Knowing why approximately one in seven families will face financial hardship allows us to debunk fallacious theories like the anecdotal overconsumption myth and allows us to keep families safer against predatory lenders and the very real and outside-of-their-control threat of bankruptcy due to unexpected job loss, unexpected illness and medical bills, and unexpected change in the family unit. As a result of her work, Warren has fought hard against bad bankruptcy bills that make it harder for everyday Americans to file for bankruptcy.

Warren has always tried to get to the crux of a topic and did so again when in 2014 she explained her stance on the role of government in business. On the question often framed as ‘pro-business vs anti-business’ politics, Warren said that this is all just a distraction from the real question: “Does everyone pay, or just the little guys?” (pg 247, from “A Fighting Chance”). Warren says she is pro-union, pro-small business, and pro-big business as long as unions, small businesses, and big businesses are fair and just to workers.

Warren has long been championing the women’s movement, equity and racial justice, and education. She proposed the Bank on Students Act in her first senate term to improve student loan lending rates. Although it didn’t pass, the bill led to a compromise that ended up saving students $15 billion. Warren has experienced many wins and losses throughout her advocacy career, which has paved the road to persistence and keeping up righteous fights. More recently, Warren released a plan for tuition-free higher education and student loan forgiveness.

When running for senate in 2012, Warren insisted that she and her opponent sign what became The People’s Pledge to reduce the power of Super Pacs and other big money influenced groups over elections. Warren has also worked to improve hearing aid access (making them cheaper and more accessible) and fought legal cases on behalf of asbestos victims. She has always been a planner, fighter, and idealist who believes in fighting hard but being open to compromising later and seeing the potential good of what government can do.

“You don’t get what you don’t fight for,” Warren often says; let’s fight for her to be our most progressive vice president and the first woman in America to be vice president.